Superchefs Join to Help a Flooded Friend

Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park and David Chang of the Momofuku empire will hold benefits for Governor, a four-month-old restaurant in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn, which was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy. Governor’s chef, Brad McDonald, has told several blogs that his restaurant, at the bottom of the ClockTower building, was one of the most damaged restaurants in the city, taking more than four feet of water in its bar area and three feet in its kitchen. Its devastation has closed it indefinitely, until it can receive several hundred thousand dollars for reconstruction.

Enter Mr. Humm and Mr. Chang. Mr. McDonald and the chefs Sean Gray of Momofuku Ko and Matt Rudofker of Momofuku Ssam Bar will offer a six-course lunch with cocktails and wine pairings for $325 a person on Saturday at noon at Booker and Dax in Manhattan. Mr. Humm will offer a seven-course dinner with wine pairings for $250 a person in the private dining room at Eleven Madison Park on Tuesday at 7 p.m.

“This will be a meal by Brad,” Mr. Humm said, “with Governor’s menu, its staff and its music. It’s like a pop-up restaurant in Eleven Madson Park. There aren’t many reasons, or times, for a restaurant to pop up in the same city, but this is one.”

Why Governor? “It’s a restaurant we really respect, and we have become friends with, and we want to help,” Mr. Humm said. “And beyond Governor, there are a lot of other people who need help, so we’re trying to work that out.”

Mr. McDonald’s offerings will include caviar with brown butter ice cream; striped bass with kale, fish sauce and cilantro; and oxtail with salsify and oyster sauce. The chefs say all proceeds from the fund-raisers will go to Governor, which is also trying to raise $150,000 in online crowd-sourcing money at Go Fund Me.